Improvement in wardrobes



A. VAN WIE.

WARDROBE.

No. 175,308. Patented March 28.1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AVERY VAN WIE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WARDROBES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,308, dated March 28, 1876 application filed January 3, 1876.

"readily set up or separate and fold them to gether when desired.

Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improved receptacle. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the sides, back, and door when folded up. Fig. 3 represents atop view of Fig. 1, with the top removed. Fig. 4 is a top view of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 represents an elevation with the front frame and doors removed, showing the arrangement of thes-interior of the receptacle, and the manner in which the sides and partition are let into the top and bottom boards and secured thereto.

A represents the top ,3 B, the doors G O, the side standards or frames, and D T the bottom. The sides 0 O are hinged to the doors B B, with the hinges on the outside. The edges of the side frames 0 and doors B that are hinged together are beveled so as to allow the doors to open out, or be folded in against the sides 0 4), as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. The sides 0 O are securely fastened to the front side frames 0 0, and are hinged to each beveled side of the back P by the hinges R It, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. The upper and lower ends of the sides 0 O fit into grooves formed in the top and bottom boards, as shown in Fig.5, at w w, and are secured there by the hooks and eyebolts m o. The upright partition J is also fitted into grooves formed in the top and bottom boards, as shown. On each side of the side 0 or O,

at the hinged joint with the back P, and at the front near the frame 0, are arranged upright racks U U, in which the cleats V are inserted at any desired height, to hold the shelves K K.

In setting up my improved receptacle the bottom D T is first laid out then the sides 0 0,with the back P, fronts O O, and doors B B are opened and placed on the bottom T, so that the bottom of the sides 0 0 are inserted in the grooves in the bottom T and secured there by the hooks m in. Next, place the partition J in its groove at the bottom, and then place the top A over all, and insert the top of the sides and partition into the corresponding grooves, and make them fast by the upper hooks, as shown in Fig. 5; then place the cleats V at any desired height and place the shelves K in position, and the receptacle is completed, as in Fig. 1. When taken apart, the sides 0 0, side frames 0 0, doors B B, and back B, are folded, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4..

1 am aware that three-sided cases have been made, in which the two wall-sides are hinged directly to each other at their rear edges, and detachably connected to the door-posts at their front edges, the doors beiiig hinged to said posts so as to swing outwardly only, and-I do not claim to be the inventor of said device; but I What I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The sides 0 0, having their beveled rear edges attached to the beveled edge back P, and securely fastened to the side frames 0 0, said side frames constructed with beveled edges at the hinge-joint, and united to the beveled edges of the doors B B in the manner shown, for the purpose set forth and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AVERY VAN WIE. Witnesses:

E. 0. FRINK, I. S. LANG- 

